[PLUG] Cron advice needed

Michael Rasmussen michael at jamhome.us
Wed Apr 27 04:02:39 UTC 2016


> On April 26, 2016 8:50:30 PM PDT, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> >I spoke to soon. It worked fine when I ran it directly from the command
> >line, but crontab pukes it up:
> >This is the line in crontab:
> >
> >0 3 * * * rsync -avx --delete /home/jjj/Mail/ /media/jjj/Data/Mail
> >
> >The 'minute' is 0, which worked before. 

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 08:55:55PM -0700, Don Buchholz wrote:
> Are you sure it's a zero and not the letter 'O'?   Are there any spaces to the left of the '0'?  

wouldn't matter if there were spaces to the left of the 0, cron will accept that.
 

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